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Gesture and information structure: A case study on gestural topic markers in southern Italo-Romance [PDF]

Italian Journal of Linguistics
This paper investigates the interplay between information structure and ges ture from a generative perspective, focusing on a case study involving the ges tural topic marker [FINGER-BUNCH-OPEN-HAND] ([FBO]) in southern Italo Romance. This
Valentina Colasanti, Chiara Marchetiello
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Exploring English Language Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge and Usage When Speaking

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vocabulary forms a fundamental component of speaking ability, as it enables speakers to convey meaning accurately, fluently, and effectively. Although the relationship between vocabulary and speaking has been investigated to some extent, gaps remain in understanding the link between learners’ vocabulary knowledge and their speaking proficiency,
Junyan Guo, Martin East
wiley   +1 more source

Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning of a new, additional foreign language.
Kiyono Fujinaga‐Gordon, Mandy Simons, Seth Wiener   +2 more
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Accounting for the stochastic nature of sound symbolism using Maximum Entropy model

Open Linguistics, 2019
Sound symbolism refers to stochastic and systematic associations between sounds and meanings. Sound symbolism has not received much serious attention in the generative phonology literature, perhaps because most if not all sound symbolic patterns are ...
Kawahara Shigeto, Katsuda Hironori, Kumagai Gakuji   +2 more
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The status of extrasyllabic consonants in english and german [PDF]

, 2013
Since the advent of nonlinear phonology many linguists have either assumed or argued explicitly that many languages have words in which one or more segment does not belong structurally to the syllable.
Hall, Tracy Alan
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L2 Chinese Grammatical Acquisition and Processing: A Substantive and Methodological Review

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 92 empirical studies on Chinese as a second language (CSL) in grammatical processing and development, synthesizing their substantive foci and methodological characteristics. The results reveal consistent scholarly attention to cross‐linguistic topics, with less focus on features that are distinctively
Shaohua Fang, Yi Xu, Jiani He, Jia Wang
wiley   +1 more source

L2 Korean Phonology: the acquisition of stops by English-and Finnish-speaking adults [PDF]

, 2005
The purpose of this thesis is to find the reason why attaining nativelike pronunciation is difficult in adult L2A. This thesis attempts to take a purely linguistic approach to find it by hypothising that the acquisition of segmental phonology is more ...
Kim, Jeong Young
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Performance Control, Reflection, and Attainment in Instructed Language Learning: A Longitudinal Study of Self‐Regulation in L2 English and L2 German Courses

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Self‐regulation (SR) plays a central role in instructed language learning, as it enables learners to set goals, monitor progress, and adapt learning behaviour through reflection. We investigate the contribution of two core self‐regulatory processes—performance control (PC) and reflection (R)—to attainment (A) in structure‐focused L2 English ...
Jakub Przybył, Agnieszka Poźlewicz, Justyna Duch‐Adamczyk   +2 more
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Morpheme-internal recursion in phonology Studies in generative grammar ;, v. 140./ edited by Kuniya Nasukawa.

, 2020
In English.Includes bibliographical references and index.Generative phonology aims to formalise two distinct aspects of phonological processes: the functional and the representational.
Nasukawa Kuniya
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An Optimality Theory Account of the Non-concatenative Morphology of the Nominal System of Libyan Arabic, with Special Reference to the Broken Plural [PDF]

, 2012
This work presents a full and unified investigation of the phenomenon of non-concatenative nominal morphology in Libyan Arabic (LA), with special reference to the formation of the broken plural (BP). The analysis provides a morphophonological account of
GABER, GABER,MEFTAH
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